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Tamsin Lloyd

Thoughts on Flash - 0 views

www.apple.com/...thoughts-on-flash

iPad apple flash; standards

shared by Tamsin Lloyd on 30 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Andra Keay on 30 Apr 10
     
    Open Standards vs Cross Platform - it's starting to sound like politics. Confusing. Misleading. Impractical. Constrained.
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  • Katharina Otulak on 30 Apr 10
     
    Steve Jobs released an open letter on the Apple website explaining why they decided not to allow Flash on their iPhones, iPod Touches and the new iPad. Interestingly, the very first arguement is about open software and open program standards such as html5, css and JavaScript, so highly relevant for the course.
  • Tamsin Lloyd on 23 May 10
     
    A good discussion on Apple's view on Flash, following our class discussion on standards and the iPad not supporting Flash.
  • Allison Jones on 24 May 10
     
    Came across this article the other day - basically saying that if Adobe wants to prove that Flash can run on iPhones without any major issues, they can simply use iPhones that have been "jailbroken" (meaning they've been hacked and any app can be downloaded - circumventing the App Store). Adobe could create a Flash app to run on the iPhones and prove its points about security and performance of Flash on mobile devices. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/may/18/apple-adobe-flash-player-solution
Sandra Rivera

Making Public Records Public: Why open formats are essential for sharing and preserving... - 0 views

opensource.com/...ntial-sharing-and-preserving-g

open data formats open source open standards #ARIN6902

shared by Sandra Rivera on 24 May 10 - Cached
  • Sandra Rivera on 24 May 10
     
    To achieve accesibility to open data it is necessary to overcome political and technical barriers
Sandra Rivera

Today Facebook, Tomorrow the World | Epicenter | Wired.com - 0 views

www.wired.com/...facebook-becomes-web

facebook #ARIN6902 privacy google open code

shared by Sandra Rivera on 18 May 10 - Cached
  • With a few deft maneuvers, Facebook is aiming to make itself the center of the internet, the central repository and publisher of what users like and do online.
  • Facebook’s main lever to get all this data funneled to them is a simple “I Like” button, which websites can embed on their pages with very little effort.
  • Facebook built much of this easy-to-use system on “open” standards, as WebMonkey’s Michael Calore reports, even as it sucks the data into a closed community. But those standards are used almost exclusively by Facebook, and ignore the work that’s been done by others to create universally understandable meta-data
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  • You can opt out of some of this through Facebook’s increasingly arcane privacy settings, though most won’t do anything to stop Facebook’s relentless push to make people’s profiles public.
  • Sandra Rivera on 18 May 10
     
    Are we using facebook or is facebook using us?
Sandra Rivera

open code / open source: Apple vs Flash: standards, power and the end user - 0 views

openthecode.blogspot.com/...h-standards-power-and-end.html

apple flash power #ARIN6902 blog post

shared by Sandra Rivera on 10 May 10 - Cached
  • Sandra Rivera on 10 May 10
     
    Apple vs Flash is used to illustrate protocol as a form of control where end users have no saying and are affected with a partial access to internet
Bujuanes Livermore

Microsoft weighs in on the Flash issue - 1 views

www.smh.com.au/...lash-either-20100503-u2bk.html

Adobe Microsoft Apple Standards HTML5

shared by Bujuanes Livermore on 03 May 10 - Cached
  • Bujuanes Livermore on 03 May 10
     
    Microsoft shares the same point of view on the limitations of the Flash product as Apple. Again, reliability, security and performance were identified as impediments of supporting the flawed software. Speaking about the mobile era Steve Jobs of Apple says 'low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards...' are areas where Flash is not currently accommodating. It's most interesting to watch powerful market players create pressure for change in the internet space. Adobe can ill afford to ignore these criticisms yet it's now taking opportunity to discredit the motives of the multinationals: "Apple's moves to block Flash and other technologies are designed to protect a business model that locks developers and consumers into a single, proprietary stack," Adobe spokeswoman Holly Campbell said.
César Albarrán Torres

Google and PayPal to Support New Government Login System - 0 views

mashable.com/...google-paypal-oix

privacy

shared by César Albarrán Torres on 03 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Open Identity Exchange (OIX) is a newly founded non-profit organization
  • The aim of this new organization is exchange of online identity credentials across public and private sectors
  • ; in other words, it can certify online identity providers to U.S. federal standards
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  • “OIX grew out of a public/private industry partnership initiated by the U.S. government at this conference last year.
  • OIX is a solution to this problem not just for the U.S. government, but for many different governments, industry alliances, non-profit associations, telcos, academic networks, and others all over the world who need to establish trust across a wide online population
  • will be accepted for registration and login at U.S. government websites.
  • Read more about OIX at the official site.
  • César Albarrán Torres on 03 Mar 10
     
    OIX is a new organization that will try to provide identity credentials that can be accepted by both the private and public sectors. But, like some of this initiatives, government-wise it will only work, initially, in the U.S. Questions on privacy can also be raised? Wouldn't OIX allow for easier access to the whereabouts of an individual's online persona? 
César Albarrán Torres

Hugo Chavez Has a New Title: Blogger - 0 views

mashable.com/...hugo-chavez-blogger

chavez internet governance internet government twitter Venezuela blogger

shared by César Albarrán Torres on 25 May 10 - Cached
  • That’s right, in addition to (surprisingly) getting hip to Twitter, Chavez now has his very own blog.
  • the site basically contains news about meetings with Chinese officials, columns by Fidel Castro (who Chavez has already urged to join Twitter), as well as speeches, photos and videos. In short, this is a pretty standard political website — there’s even a comments section (although all comments are suspiciously positive).
  • This sentiment falls in line with statements he made two months ago when he called for greater regulation of the Internet after a website posted a story falsely suggesting that Diosdado Cabello, a senior minister and close aide of Chavez, had been assassinated.
  • César Albarrán Torres on 25 May 10
     
    Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez is really into his digital persona. Now he has a blog. Interesting how he has taken social media communications seriously. 
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